When Mr Rathbone discovered this ad online and sent it to me I was excited. Whether Gene actually ever made any of these recipes himself, or whether this whole concept was an invention of a Durkee home economist (or Don Draper or one of his ilk) we will never know… But late this summer, we...

Behold the Greatest Man Sandwich in the World. When I made this recently (pre-Covid) and popped this pic up on Instagram it caused such excitement that I decided it HAD to be the recipe of the month. It’s one of those “sounds weird, tastes good” movie star recipes. Plus of course, it has a brilliant...

Life is full of surprises and my American pen-pal Margie was right, Gene’s crazy sandwich is GOOD.  It is made from mashed potato and French bread and onions and mayonnaise and it tastes mighty fine.  Mmmm. Surprise number 2 tonight was The Way We Were.  I settled down to watch it and was very surprised...

“I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls” It’s a double whammy today with a tester Stateside (Jeanne) and a tester Thameside (Hedy) both trying out the “Greatest Man Sandwich in the World”. It’s quite a claim isn’t it? And particularly surprising in that it doesn’t contain the one...

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